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Dead Before Dying by Deon Meyer6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If you like the genre, or are a Meyer fan go ahead with this one, but the story tends to be fairly grey for long stretches. The ending as a bit of change up and so I will not spoil it here but it is worth the slog to get there. It seems it takes a lot of lines of text to get from place to place in this book, nothing much happens for long stretches during which we are bludgeoned with the introspection of the main character. When the accused is found stabbed through the heart by spear, its only the beginning of a string of bloody murders and of a dangerous dilemma for detective. All of this with the backdrop of South African politics and culture. As he tries to pull his life together he works out the clues to a tough case and faces a new and difficult boss. The protagonist in this story carries the angst of loosing his wife in a murder while she was on the job, also as a police officer. Deon Meyer is a decent writer, and I like the fact that his books focus on a different person in the police department from one book to the next, yet still involve most of the subsequent co-workers in the storyline. ![]()
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